Extensible garment



Feb, 13, 1923. l 1,445,351).

E. ODONNELL ET AL.

TXTENSIBLE GARMENT.

FILED OCT-11,1922.

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ELLA ODONNELL AND BEATRICE PINTOFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS T ISAAC Y GINSBERG & 'BROS., OF NEW YORK, NJ Y.

EXTENSIBLE GARMENT.

Application filed October 11, 1922. Serial No. 593,862.

To all whom it may concern: Wrinkles and the front, therefore is intended Be it known that we, ELLA ODoNNnLL, to fit the outlines of the person wearing the a citizen of the United States, and BEATRICE garment snugly and since in the preferred INTOFF, a citizen of Russia, both residing form there are no wrinkles .or pleats in-the at New York, in the county and State of front of the garment it will present a neat New York, have invented certain new and appearance.

useful Improvements in /Extensible Gar- Just below the arm holes 2 a part of the ments, of which the following is a specifimaterial of the garment is cut away and cation. there is inserted a pleated piece of material 10 This invention relates to garments such as 3 with the outer folds of the pleats sewed dresses, robes or wrappers, but more espein at 4. These pleats run from the bottom cially those in which the waist and skirt to the top of the extra piece 3 .Which is portions are continuous-one with the other. sewed in to the front and back portions 1' It is the object of the invention to imand 5 by seams running across the top of 15 prove the garments so that the general shape the piece 3 and from the bottom to the top thereof may be retained even though the on both sides of the pleated piece. The size .is increased at the waist portion. intervening edges of the pleats are not sewed Another object of the invention is to probut are left free to expand. vide a garment which is adjustable as to The back 5 like the front 1 is preferably 20'size so that the same is readily adapted to plain and unpleated but, cut to fit the form fit persons of different sizes or a person more orlless snugly and-because of the garundergoing physiological development and ment wrinkling or creasing only in the in- ,is especially valuable as a maternity dress. serte'd piece 3 which is constructed to nor- Another object of the invention is to promally assume a pleated condition, the back 25 vide a garment that will be comparatively as Well as the front will in its preferred free or Wrinkles in its front or back and to form normally be kept clear of wrinkles and locate any wrinkles in the side of the garcreases, and furthermore since the pleated ment where they will be least noticeable, inserted portions 3 maybe easily extended keeping the front and back of, the garment horizontally the garment can be easily 1 30' ordinarily free of wrinkles, even if the garchanged from the shape shown in Figure 2 ment is worn by people of different waist \to the shape shown in Fig. 3. development l The garment may have at the Waist a belt With these objects in view and others 6 which is made long enough to extend 'which will appear to those skilled in the around different sized wearers, and in front 95 garment'producing art as this description it may have pockets 7 and a collar, 8. The proceeds,-the invention will be described in sleeves 9 are of the construction shown and connection with the accompanying drawings the length of the garment may be varied to of which: suit the taste of the wearer. 0

Figure 1 is a representation of the front The front and back portions of the gar- 40 of a garment. ment may in .some instances be made of a Fig. 2 is a representation of the side of single piece of cloth with cutout portions to the garment withthe sleeves removed show: make it fit the'form of the wearer. ing the appearance of the body of the gar- Having described the invention what, we ment on, say, a normally shaped individual. claim as new is: as Fig. 3 is a side view showing the appear- 1. A dress "for house or street wear com- 0 ance of the same garment on a larger sized posed entirely of front and back portions, person. I I r extending from the shoulders the full length Referring to the details of the drawings" of the dress, the dress having cutout porin which like numerals are used to designate tions extending at its top a shorthorizontal 50 the same parts in all the views, 1 indicates distance just below the arm, and thence the front of the garment. This may be cut downwardly to the bottom of the dress, and to fit various fullnesses in the bust or front a piece having a horizontal top end inserted of the person for whom the garment is dein the cut out "portion, said piece being signed. It is desirable that the front of the creased or pleated at the top horizontal end as garment should appear smooth and without and each crease or pleat extending from the 7 top horizontal end to the bottom of the.

dress, said pleated portion being sewed into the cut out portion by a seam extending along the horizontal top of, the inserted piece and on either side of the inserted portion from its bottom to its top.

2. A dress for street or house wear adapted to fit persons of various sizes composed entirely of front and back portions, both extending from the shoulders the. full length of the dress,

a cut out portion extendsaid portions downwardly said dress having ing horizontally from front to rear, thence downwardly from near the arm pit to the bottom of the dress, a piece to fill in the cut outportion, said piece being pleated from the horizontal-topof the out out portion', to the bottom of the dress, the leated portion: being sewed into the dress across the horizontal portion and down the sides of the cut out portion, all the ends of'the pleats terminating in the horizontalpor- V I tion, thns allowing the dress to neatly fit persons'of different sizes, while retaining a v neat appearance.

3.'A street dress composed entirely of front and back portions in one piece, said front and back portions at their meeting horlzontally from the front to rear and then downwardlyfrom near both arms to the ends of the pleats being all just beneath the arm pit.

our signatures.

ELLA ODONNELLQ BEATRICE PINTOFF.

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